Open AccessSupport for Dialysis Therapy in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Myanmar by Japanese Societies in the Field of Blood Purification
Author(s) -
Kenichi Kokubo,
Kozue Kobayashi,
Sunichiro Urabe,
Hirokazu Matsubara,
Tomotaka Naramura,
Haruki Wakai,
Takeshi Naganuma,
Fumitaka Nakajima,
Nobuhisa Shibahara,
Toru Hyodo,
Kenichi Matsuda,
Kazunari Yoshida,
Akihiro Yamashita,
Hideki Kawanishi
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
blood purification
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1421-9735
pISSN - 0253-5068
DOI - 10.1159/000479621
Subject(s) - dialysis , southeast asia , work (physics) , specialty , medicine , economic growth , business , intensive care medicine , political science , family medicine , engineering , surgery , sociology , mechanical engineering , ethnology , economics
With recent economic development in Southeast Asia, there have been improvements in medical services and healthcare provision. This has led to increased numbers of dialysis patients and increased numbers of dialysis facilities in the region. To assist economically developing countries in managing this change, support projects from Japan have been conducted in the region since around 2007. This article summarizes and discusses Japan's support activities, in which some of the authors were directly involved, in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Myanmar. Initial support was mainly organized by the non-governmental organization Ubiquitous Blood Purification International (NGO UBPI), and currently several organizations in the field of blood purification work together to offer ongoing support in the region. Many positive changes have resulted from these activities in Southeast Asia, but challenges remaining for the future are to establish an educational system for each dialysis specialty and develop dialysis techniques ensuring high treatment quality and safety.